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“I just want to understand”: the strange art of support
Over the last few months I’ve felt more able to be open with the people around me about my trials and tribulations with mental health than I have in the past. Most of my close friends now know that...
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Angry… (aka ‘why can’t we talk about this? ‘)
This is post about being angry. I started to write it last night, when I was in the middle of feeling angry, but decided it wasn’t a sensible idea. A post about anger and an angry post are not the same...
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Coming out as crazy
This post was inspired by an unexpected conversation I had with someone recently. This is an anonymous blog, but I want to make sure that nobody I write about is identifiable either. So I won’t...
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The lost art of breaking a secret (with apologies to Queens of the Stone Age)
Sometimes, I think not keeping a confidence is the right thing to do. This was the ostensible subject of a fairly massive disagreement I had with someone on Thursday. The sort of disagreement that...
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Trouble with terminology
Over the last few weeks, I have been doing a lot of thinking about labels. Specifically, whether I think – have ever thought – of myself as ill, and whether there is an element of pathologising a...
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Depression Awareness Week, and light in the dark
If you spend a lot of time surfing the net (which I do), it always seems to be some sort of day, or week, or another. Everything, from books to diseases, has a day or a week dedicated to it. A...
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Are you SURE you’re depressed…?
I’ve been a bad blogger recently. Life has been utterly crazy (and I use that term advisedly, given my circumstances) and there has been no time to write. I don’t think I’d had a meal at home for...
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A letter to an old acquaintance
Dear Depression (and your close friend, Anxiety), We have been together for quite a while now, you and I. You have been part of my life, on and off, for the last seventeen years. Sometimes I think...
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Trying to explain
I’ve been keeping a fairly low profile over the past three weeks. Not least because I’ve been trying to adjust to life on medication – how it makes me feel, and also how I feel about it. Somehow...
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Dealing with my death-wish
I don’t really believe in the process of trigger warnings. I’ve said this before, but real life doesn’t come with them. That said, I’d hate to make someone who was already feeling vulnerable or...
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